Lyra_Lycan
@Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
She/Her - Was bullied off reddit by mean moderators, but it’s a corporation anyway - 🏳️⚧️omni, heart - Pro kindness|gressiveness, Anti cruelty|bullshit.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 6 hours ago:
Seeking help isn’t contempt; providing some information is useful.
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- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 8 hours ago:
AI Overview
People might have Googled “Worst timeline” from July to September 2025 due to a combination of severe and compounding global crises, including major humanitarian crises, a series of devastating natural disasters, significant geopolitical instability, and widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the internet and search engines.Humanitarian and Conflict Crises
- Gaza War Escalation: The humanitarian situation in Gaza reached catastrophic levels, with reports from the UN and aid agencies in July and September confirming widespread starvation and mounting evidence of famine, leading to significant global outrage and diplomatic shifts. A UN report in September went on to state that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
- Worsening Global Conflicts: The Sudanese civil war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a gang war in Haiti, which saw gangs take control of over 90% of the capital, all continued or escalated during this period, causing immense suffering and instability. Mass Casualties in Pakistan and Iraq: A fire in an Iraqi hypermarket killed at least 61 people in July, and monsoons killed at least 63 in Punjab, Pakistan. A building collapse in Karachi later that month killed 27. Natural Disasters and Climate Events
- Extreme Weather Events: A deadly heatwave hit Europe in early July, and flash floods in Central Texas killed over 100 people. Severe monsoon rains and landslides also caused numerous deaths and widespread damage in India and South Korea throughout July and September.
- Devastating Earthquakes: In September, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan killed at least 2,200 people, with a second strong quake the following day interrupting rescue efforts. Geopolitical and Societal Instability
- Political Turmoil: Donald Trump’s administration faced numerous domestic and international challenges, including an unproven claim linking autism to a common pain killer, the indefinite suspension of air defense and weapon shipments to Ukraine, and a controversial increase in military presence and a subsequent military strike near Venezuela, which drew international condemnation.
- Global Diplomatic Shifts: Several Western countries, including Belgium, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Portugal, announced their support for Palestinian statehood, leading to strong reactions from Israel and heightened diplomatic tensions.
- Internet and Technology Frustrations: Many users found Google search results to be significantly worse in 2025, saturated with AI-generated content, aggressive ads, and clickbait, making it harder to find reliable information. Google also rolled out two significant, messy algorithm and spam updates during this time, frustrating website owners.
These interconnected events created a pervasive sense of global crisis and unpredictability, making the search query “Worst timeline” a likely expression of public sentiment.
- Comment on Looking for controller recommendations 2 days ago:
I don’t have any small form factor recommendations, but I can recommend - if you’re comfortable going AliBaba/AliExpress - the Ípega brand. It’s about £10, requires an app to configure, but extremely long-life battery and switchable modes. But the best controller for the rare few mobile games that support controller input natively is an Xbox One… one
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 2 days ago:
This. Why pay £6/m when, with self-hosting a Samba/NFS/NextCloud instance as part of 20 other services, I pay ~£6 a year. (Might increase drastically with Ollama or SearXNG and a GPU, but still a fraction of the corporate cost)
- Comment on PC Master Race 5 days ago:
Good, but nowadays the gap is more $800/$3000.
My console from 2020 runs games about the same as PC hardware from 2018. If you built a 2018 spec PC today it would beat the Xbox Series X and PS5, but unlike the consoles, PC components have reduced in price.
Which means the gap with available hardware and matched SSD size would be $650 to $900
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 days ago:
I used Ghost Spectre once and it was great, but was scared off it by frequent mentions online of other security flaws with prebuilt ISOs, the same potential risks as any closed-source and unregulated software. I never saw issues, just got fearmongered out of it
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 days ago:
Can confirm, I still own an i7-7700k. Pretty much all 77xx variants were on the compatibility list but mine wasn’t. Weird thing, though (sarcasm), I used the standard Win11 Install Media to install, and it did so with no problems! Funny, that.
Occasionally it threw a fit with the Office apps my partner needed to use (the standard for the university and LibreOffice’s docx, xlsx format is not compatible with M$), all it did was refuse login due to lack of TPM2.0, but this only happened after the 24H3 update or whatever it’s called
(All this is moot for me now as I switched to Arch Linux)
- Comment on New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs 6 days ago:
Nobody should’ve bought games published by Amazon in the first place
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
addr.toLowerCase().replace(’ ‘,’')
- Comment on Us ❤️ 1 week ago:
- Comment on I-is that LeBron James?? 1 week ago:
Hell, word has it the one person Jesus didn’t rail or get railed by was a brothel worker
- Comment on Yes, yeeeees, YEEEEEEEES 2 weeks ago:
Tragic that services I use and rely on use AWS. Even those that are FOSS and as ethical as possible.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know people were linking to external images here, especially to enshittified services. Figured everyone would download and reupload instead of make their posts rely on a centralised server ykwim
- Comment on Nintendon't 2 weeks ago:
Omg what?! My Galaxy S5 had Micro-USB, not this monstrosity
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 4 weeks ago:
This is the rule for any account or mobile game, too - if it asks your age before asking for consent to farm, put any age below 13. It’ll either not farm you because it’s illegal or it’ll kick you out. If the latter, good riddance really
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 4 weeks ago:
Hell yeah that’s a success. Some legends are rebuilding server support for The Crew, but it requires a PC copy to modify the files. Back in 2014 I bought it on Xbox.
Longevity alone is a great reason to switch. The knowledge that a higher price usually means a better product; complete control over how good the game looks (which usually means higher graphics settings compared to console); a higher chance of being able to play offline to skirt mandatory updates, data farming, glitch patches and other attempts to restrict your choices of playstyle; and less chance of your purchased license to play being indefinitely revoked due to some decision the publisher made. Because, let’s face it, publishers are usually the biggest assholes in the game industry, and the consoles are just another way of enhancing their profit and control over developers and consumers.
They’re a great, convenient product, but all convenience today comes with a higher cost than money.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 4 weeks ago:
Wait. I blacked out and my bank is missing numbers, what happened?!
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 4 weeks ago:
Even better! They’ve since added TF2 and DOTA 2 to the bundle
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 4 weeks ago:
A few sales ago there was a deal for the entire Valve collection. I finally got the Half-Lifes and a dozen others for about £25
- Comment on Oblivion leveling guides be like: 4 weeks ago:
Incroyable!
- Comment on Oblivion leveling guides be like: 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much every time I played Oblivion I’d spend a week in the tutorial cave, levelling Agility by using a turbo controller and rubber band, jumping in a corner where the ceiling height is just high enough so you can spam about 5 jumps per second. Later on you can do what you said near a goblin to max Sneak, but I think it’s quicker by that guy you need to kill for the Dark Brotherhood
- Comment on Microsoft announces 50% price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 4 weeks ago:
Yay, sweet! 50% more content, right?
Boycott Microsoft
- Comment on beans 🫘 4 weeks ago:
Clean version.
- Comment on beans 🫘 4 weeks ago:
I’m with you. Censorship is killing my sanity. But here’s the issue.
We already have content restrictions in place to “protect” under 18s whether they’re mature enough or not to see porn or gore. Physical and digital media have PEGI, BBFC, etc. ISPs have parental control - the UK has Content Lock. We have parents with personal preferences for their offspring’s access.
National or global censorship is useless. In their quest for power the corporations and governments are trying to turn the internet into a child-friendly internet. If these are the lengths they’re willing to go to, if their intentions were honest, it would surely be easier to let the adults have the freedom of adults and build a second internet for children. Maybe age lock that. Instead of killing everything consenting adults made.
- Comment on Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds? 4 weeks ago:
I can see very little difference between the two, then again my PC refresh period is roughly eight years.
Both will run Monster Hunter Wilds with possibly 15% difference in framerate, but very manageable whichever you choose. I’ve listed below some ideal COMPONENTS to look for in a PC - if you can find a desktop with most of them your son will be set for a decade:
CPU:
- Intel Core Ultra 265K/F or higher
- AMD Ryzen 7900X3D or higher (X3D > X)
GPU:
- Nvidia 4080, 5070 or higher (but if you can wait one month, Super variants are going to be released soon - October-November is always a huge time for tech releases)
- AMD Ryzen 9700XT or XTX
RAM:
- Minimum 32GB, DDR5, 5200MHz.
- Brands: Corsair, Crucial, Kingston and PNY are the top
SSD:
- Minimum 2TB, M.2 NVME, 6000MB/s sequential read.
- Brands: Samsung, Western Digital Black/Blue, Seagate, Corsair and, again, Kingston
PSU (Power Supply):
- Brands: Corsair, MSI
Preference: Performance over RGB lighting aha
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 4 weeks ago:
Even the pale one on top right has a foreskin
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 4 weeks ago:
At least a couple are orgasmic. Hope this helps!
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Eh, blame the English for making the language lmao
I’m all for this
- Comment on read banned books 5 weeks ago:
Now I’m all for free expression and fuck oppression, however… I can safely say the NSFW part is the word ‘fisting’ on the mug. References to advanced sexual acts are simply far too vulgar for youngsters’ eyes. Imagine: a six year old in the era of questioning everything, recognising that the term’s meaning is unbeknownst to them and deciding to ask their parent. The abject horror of a parent coming face-to-face with the slightly awkward dilemma of blowing off the answer, lying or telling the truth. Because that is literally the worst that can happen if a child sees a word they don’t know the meaning to.
There’s a serious issue with Not Safe For Work tags being used to mean Not Safe For Children but that’s another argument entirely
- Comment on booming 5 weeks ago:
I know there’s a whole ass committee for creating new emojis, but I hope one day they make the 🤣 in at least seven other orientations
